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China may have world's largest online population in two years (AFP)

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:47:58 GMT | Yahoo! News

Locals enjoy the online games and chatrooms at an Internet cafe in Chengdu, China. Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered his officials to better regulate China's Internet content to ensure information is healthy and "ethically inspiring."(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China's Internet population could overtake the United States as the world's largest within two years, but foreign dotcoms may have to wait much longer to profit from it, analysts say.



Rescue work abandoned for 29 workers trapped in Chinese mine (AFP)

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:10:43 GMT | Yahoo! News

Graphic on coal mining in China after state press reported that the death rate in mines fell 20 percent last year down to an average of 13 people a day(AFP Graphic/Martin Medino)AFP - Twenty-nine workers trapped in a flooded Chinese iron ore mine for one week are believed to be dead and rescue work has been abandoned, according to state press reports.



China confirms satellite-killing test, says nothing to fear (AFP)

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:36:28 GMT | Yahoo! News

Visitors walk by models of Long March rockets at an aerospace exhibition in China's southwestern city of Chengdu, July 2006. China's insistence that its developing space programme should not be seen as a threat chimes with Beijing's mantra of recent years that its rise as a world superpower is nothing to worry about.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)AFP - China confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that it had tested a satellite-destroying weapon but insisted that its space programme was no threat to the rest of the world.




Chinese president urges murder probe (AP)

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:15:54 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, shakes hands with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo during the welcoming ceremony for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, in this November 4, 2006, file photo. Hu Jintao's upcoming African tour will boost trade and highlight Beijing's aid initiatives, an official said Wednesday, brushing aside accusations that China is overlooking human rights abuses to gain access to Africa's resources. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, FILE)AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao has ordered a swift investigation into the murder of a Chinese newspaper employee at an illegal mine in northern China, state media said Wednesday.



Hu's Africa trip eyed by rights groups (AP)

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:24:58 GMT | Yahoo! News

Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, shakes hands with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo during the welcoming ceremony for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, in this November 4, 2006, file photo. Hu Jintao's upcoming African tour will boost trade and highlight Beijing's aid initiatives, an official said Wednesday, brushing aside accusations that China is overlooking human rights abuses to gain access to Africa's resources. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, FILE)AP - Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to Africa will be closely watched to see whether he increases pressure on Sudan to resolve the Darfur conflict.



China's economy grows 10.7 percent in 2006, fastest since mid-1990s (AFP)

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:21:11 GMT | Yahoo! News

Two cleaners walk past an advertisement for a new property development in Shanghai. China's economy expanded 10.7 percent in 2006, the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics.(AFP/File/Mark Ralston)AFP - China's economy expanded by 10.7 percent in 2006, according to the government, reporting growth not seen for over a decade and putting it on track to become the world's third biggest next year.



News Corp set to launch MySpace.com China venture (Reuters)

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:56:21 GMT | Yahoo! News

A screenshot of MySpace.com, taken on January 24, 2007. News Corp.'s popular Internet social Web site, MySpace, plans to more than double the number of countries it will operate in by the end of the year, a senior MySpace executive told Reuters on Wednesday. (www.myspace.com/Reuters)Reuters - News Corp. (NWSa.N) is finalising a deal with partners to launch a networking Web site venture in China within a few months, venture capital and Chinese government sources said on Friday.



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